I can’t begin to tell you how much I’ve grown with God this past year. I am so different than I was even a few months ago. He has changed my heart and our family is so much more successful for the Kingdom and on the righter path. When I look back at all we’ve accomplished, I feel good. I see how much progress we’ve made! The bad days seem far away and the overall picture is success. I look forward to some downtime and planning for next year. We’re not changing much. Things are too good right now.

I love these posts every year! Part of it is the planner in me, finding what we will do for the coming year is exciting. But, when I look back at what we’ve done for the entire school year, I am ENCOURAGED. I see that we really did accomplish a lot! And that boosts me to keep on keeping on.

Even we “school year rounders” tend to review our year at this time of year and decide what worked and what didn’t. I am so thankful to actually feel as if this year was mostly a success, but there are a few things that I will change.

I started with this post by looking up what I had proudly announced as our (drum roll, please) curriculum choices for this past year. And then I choked on my popcorn. Umm, yeah. I was tremendously ambitious and / or delusional. What we are doing now is sooooo not what we started with!

It’s that time of year in our homeschool. When May rolls around we’re finishing up our book work for this school year and packing away all of those things we are through with. Evaluation of what we are doing takes place all the time, but at this time of year I like to look particularly at all of the curriculum we used and find out what worked and what didn’t.

This time of year we start winding down the old school year and gearing up for the next year. I look at all the things we did and take some time to see if we reached our goals and accomplished the things we set out to learn. I try to see what worked for us and what things we need to tweak for the upcoming year.

Last year we made the switch to schooling year round. Since we don’t technically have an end date, I still need to take the time at least once a year, if not twice, to assess how our schooling is going and make any necessary changes to our curriculum and/or our approach.

Another school year is nearing the end, and as we start to put away the books and think ahead to next year, part of the process is to evaluate how we did over the year and what changes we’ll need to consider for the coming year. What aspects of our homeschool rocked? Where did we do tolerably well? Where is there room for improvement?